La Pomme Epineuse. Stramonium. Thorn-apple. Stramonio. Dorrenapfel.

Description

Beautiful original hand coloured large folio copper engraving of a Devil's Trumpet. Drawn and engraved by Regnault's wife Geneviève. With wide margin. The engraving comes from "La botanique" which is according to Blunt "Perhaps the most impressive French botanical book of the period".

Details

Cartographer

Nicolas François Regnault

Title

La Pomme Epineuse. Stramonium. Thorn-apple. Stramonio. Dorrenapfel.

Publisher, Year

Paris, 1774

Plate Size

38.3 x 25.9 cm (15.1 x 10.2 inches)

Sheet Size

48.0 x 34.0 cm (18.9 x 13.4 inches)

Reference

Dunthorne 256; Nissen BBI, 1600

Condition

Printed on chain-lined paper with strong plate marks and watermarks. Some marginal foxing, mainly in the margins. Minor undulated.

Cartographer

Nicolas François Regnault, a French botanist and physician, was born 1746 in Paris. For his major work La botanique mise à la portée de tout le monde , his wife Geneviève de Nangis Regnault has drawn and engraved most of the plates. He died in 1810.

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